There has been a considerable amount of interest in the ion-exchange properties layered zirconium phosphates. Potential applications remediation nuclear waste have renewed these inorganic materials, due to their high stability under acidic conditions typically found legacy pools. It well documented that substitution metals with different ionic radii into frameworks materials can alter chemical ...

Sad1/UNC84 (SUN) domain proteins are a highly conserved family of inner nuclear membrane localised proteins in eukaryotes. One of their main functions is as key components of nucleo-cytoskeletal bridging complexes, in which SUN proteins associate with nucleoskeletal elements. In metazoans these are the lamins, which form a supportive structural network termed the lamina. Plants lack sequence ho...

Whilst existing composite aircraft designs carry additional weight to mitigate the risk of undetected nonconformance to design, new non-destructive characterisation (NDC) methods offer a leaner future for composite designs through complete verification of conformance. The structural-integrity philosophy for composites in current in-service aircraft does not directly accommodate any benefit from...